Concentrations of estradiol in ewe cerebrospinal fluid are modulated by photoperiod through pineal-dependent mechanisms

Journal of Pineal Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 306-312

  Thiery, Jean Claude ^a   Lomet, Didier ^a   Schumacher, Michael ^b   Liere, Philippe ^b   Tricoire, Helene ^a   Locatelli, Alain ^a   Delagrange, Philippe ^c   Malpaux, Benoit ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Photoperiod; Pineal gland; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PINEAL BODY; PINEALECTOMY; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELATONIN; OVARIECTOMY; PHOTOPERIOD; PINEAL GLAND; SHEEP;

EID: 33749353455     PISSN: 07423098     EISSN: 1600079X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-079X.2006.00370.x     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. CHOWEN JA, AZCOITIA I, CARDONA-GOMEZ GP, GARCIA-SEGURA M. Sex steroids and brain: lessons from animal studies. J Pediatric Endocrinol Met 2000; 13:1045-1066.
2. WISE PM. Estrogens and neuroprotection. Trends Endocrinol Metab 2002; 13:229-230.
3. PARIANTE CM, THOMAS SA, LOVESTONE S et al. Do antidepressants regulate how cortisol affects the brain? Psychoneuroendocrinology 2001; 29:423-447.
4. IIVONEN S, HIEKKINEN T, PUOLIVALI J et al. Effects of estradiol on spatial learning, hippocampal cytochrome P450 19, and estrogen alpha and beta mRNA levels in ovariectomized female mice. Neuroscience 2006; 137:1143-1152.
5. THIERY JC, ROBEL P, CANEPA S et al. Passage of progesterone into the brain changes with photoperiod in ewe. Eur J Neurosci 2003; 18:895-901.
6. KARSCH FJ, BITTMAN EL, ROBINSON JE et al. Melatonin and refractoriness: loss of response to the melatonin signal leads to seasonal reproductive transition in the ewe. Biol Reprod 1986;34:265-274.
7. KARSCH FJ, BITTMAN EL, FOSTER DL et al. Neuroendocrine basis of seasonal reproduction. Rec Prog Horm Res 1984;40:185-232.
8. GOODMAN RL, BITTMAN EL, FOSTER DL, KARSCH FJ. Alterations in the control of luteinizing hormone pulse frequency underlie the seasonal variation in estradiol negative feedback in the ewe. Biol Reprod 1982; 27:580-589.
9. MARTIN GB, SCARAMUZZI RJ, HENSTRIDGE JD. Effects of oestradiol, progesterone and androstenedione on the pulsatile secretion of luteinizing hormone in ovariectomized ewes during spring and autumn. J Endocinol 1983; 96:181-193.
10. VIGUIE C, CARATY A, LOCATELLI A, MALPAUX B. Regulation of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) secretion by melatonin in the ewe. 1. Simultaneous delayed increase in LHRH and luteinizing hormone pulsatile secretion. Biol Reprod 1995; 52:1114-1120.
11. GAYRARD V, MALPAUX B, THIERY JC. Oestradiol increases the extracellular levels of amine metabolites in the ewe hypothalamus during anoestrus - a microdialysis study. J Endocrinol 1992; 135:421-430.
12. GAYRARD V, MALPAUX B, TILLET T, THIERY JC. Estradiol increases tyrosine hydroxylase activity of the A15 nucleus dopaminergic neurons during long days in the ewe. Biol Reprod 1994; 50:1168-1177.
13. GALLEGOS-SANCHEZ J, DELALEU B, CARATY A, MALPAUX B, THIERY JC. Estradiol acts locally within the retrochiasmatic area to inhibit pulsatile luteinizing-hormone release in the female sheep during anestrus. Biol Reprod 1997; 56:1544-1549.
14. ANDERSON GM, CONNORS JM, HARDY SL, VALENT M, GOODMAN RL. Oestradiol microimplants in the ventromedial preoptic area inhibit secretion of luteinizing hormone via dopamine neurones in anoestrous ewes. J Neuroendocrinol 2001; 13:1051-1058.
15. JANSEN HT, CUTTER C, HARDY S et al. Seasonal plasticity within the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) system of the ewe: changes in identified GnRH inputs and glial association. Endocrinology 2003; 144:3663-3676.
16. SKINNER DC, HERBISON AE. Effects of photoperiod on estrogen receptor, tyrosine hydroxylase, neuropeptide Y, and beta-endorphin immunoreactivity in the ewe hypothalamus. Endocrinology 1997; 138:2585-2595.
17. STEFANOVIC I, ADRIAN B, JANSEN HT et al. The ability of estradiol to induce fos expression in a subset of estrogen receptor α-containing neurons in the preoptic area of the ewe depends on reproductive status. Endocrinology 2000; 141:190-196.
18. THIERY JC, MALPAUX B. Seasonal regulation of reproductive activity in sheep: modulation of access of sex steroids to the brain. Ann N Y Acad Sci, 2003; 1007:169-175.
19. THIERY JC, CHEMINEAU P, HERNANDEZ X et al. Neuroendocrine interactions and seasonality. Dom Anim Endocrinol 2002; 23:87-100.
20. KARSCH FJ, DIERSCHKE DJ, WEICK RF et al. Positive and negative feedback control by estrogen of luteinizing hormone secretion in the rhesus monkey. Endocrinology 1973; 92:799-804.
21. KARSCH FJ, FOSTER DL, LEGAN SJ et al. Control of the preovulatory endocrine events in the ewe: interrelationship of estradiol, progesterone, and luteinizing hormone. Endocrinology 1979; 105:421-426.
22. CAHILL LP, SAUMANDE J, RAVAULT JP et al. Hormonal and follicular relationships in ewes of high and low ovulation rates. J Reprod Fertil 1981; 62:141-150.
23. SKINNER DC, MALPAUX B, DELALEU B, CARATY A. Luteinizing hormone (LH)-releasing hormone in third ventricular cerbrospinal fluid of the ewe: correlation with LH pulses and the LH surge. Endocrinology 1995; 136:3230-3237.
24. TRICOIRE H, LOCATELLI A, CHEMINEAU P, MALPAUX B. Melatonin enters the cerebrospinal fluid through the pineal recess. Endocrinology 2002; 143:84-90.
25. LIERE P, AKWA Y, WEILL-ENGERER S et al. Validation of an analytical procedure to measure trace amounts of neurosteroids in brain tissue by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr B 2000; 739:301-312.
26. MALPAUX B, DAVEAU A, MAURICE F et al. Microimplants of melatonin directly apposed to the pars tuberalis do not induce the stimulation of LH and inhibition of prolactin secretions of identical devices inserted in the third ventricle in the ewe. J Reprod Fertil 1994; 101:625-632.
27. SKINNER DC, MALPAUX B. High melatonin concentrations in third ventricular cerebrospinal fluid are not due to Galen vein blood recirculating through the choroid plexus. Endocrinology 1999; 140:4399-4405.
28. PELLETIER J, KANN J, DOLAIS J, ROSSELIN G. Dosage radio-immunologique de l'hormone lutéinisante plasmatique chez le mouton. Mise au point de la technique de dosage. Comp Rend Acad Sci Paris Ser D 1968; 266:2291-2294.
29. MONTGOMERY GW, MARTIN GB, Pelletier. Change in pulsatile LH secretion after ovariectomy in Ile-de France ewes in two seasons. J Reprod Fertil 1985; 73:173-183.
30. GALLEGOS-SANCHEZ J, PICARD S, DELALEU B et al. Initiation of the estradiol-induced inhibition of pulsatile LH secretion in ewes under long days: comparison of peripheral versus central treatment and neurochemical correlates. J Endocrinol 1996;151:19-28.
31. PARDRIDGE W. Steroid hormone transport through blood brain barrier - methods and concepts. In: De Kloet RE, Sutanto W (eds). Neurobiology of Steroids. Meth Neurosci 1994; 22:3-22.
32. STANKOV B, CAPSONI S, LUCINI V et al. Autoradiographic localization of putative melatonin receptors in the brains of two Old World primates: Cercopithecus aethiops and Papio ursinus. Neuroscience 1993; 52:459-468.
33. WILLIAMS LM, HANNAH LT, BASSETT JM. Melatonin receptors in neonatal pig brain and pituitary gland. J Pineal Res 1999; 26:43-49.
34. WILLIAMS LM, HANNAH LT, KYLE CE, ADAM CL. Central melatonin receptors in red deer (Cervus elaphus). Gen Comp Endocrinol 1996; 104:1-6.
35. SCHINKEL AH, WAGENAAR E, VAN DEEMTER L et al. Absence of the mdr1a P-glycoprotein in mice affects tissue distribution and pharmacokinetics of dexamethasone, digoxin, and cyclosporin A. J Clin Invest 1995; 96:1698-1705.
36. UHR M, HOLSBER F, MULLER MB. Penetration of endogenous steroid hormones corticosterone, cortisol, aldosterone and progesterone into the brain is enhanced in mice deficient for both mdr1a and mdr1b P-glycoproteins. J Neuroendocrinol 2002; 14:753-759.
37. UHR M, GRAUER MT, HOLSBOER F. Differential enhancement of antidepressant penetration into the brain in mice with abcb1ab (mdr1ab) P-glycoprotein gene disruption. Biol Psychiatry 2006; 54:840-846.
38. NISHINO J, SUZUKI H, SUGIYAMA D et al. Transepithelial transport of organic anions across the choroid plexus: possible involvement of organic anion transporter and multidrug resistance-associated protein. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1999;290:289-294.
39. PRENDERGAST BJ, MOSINGER B JR, KOLATTUKUDY PE, NELSON RJ. Hypothalamic gene expression in reproductively photoresponsive and photorefractory Siberian hamsters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:16291-16296.
40. ROBEL P, SCHUMACHER M, BAULIEU EE. Neurosteroids: from definition and biochemistry to physiopathologic function. In: 'Neurosteroids': A Novel Regulatory Function in the Nervous System. Baulieu EE, Robel P, Schumacher M, eds. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 1999; pp. 1-25.
41. HOJO Y, HATTORI TA, ENAMI T et al. Adult male rat hippocampus synthesizes estradiol from pregnenolone by cytochromes P45017alpha and P450 aromatase localized in neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:865-870.
42. RUNE GM, FROTSCHER M. Neurosteroid synthesis in the hippocampus: role in synaptic plasticity. Neuroscience 2005; 136:833-842.
43. SALEH TM, CONNELL BJ, LEGGE C, CRIBB AE. Estrogen synthesis in the central nucleus of the amygdale following middle cerebral artery occlusion: role in modulating neurotransmission. Neuroscience 2005; 135:1141-1153.
44. BITTMAN EL, KARSCH FJ, HOPKINS JW. Role of the pineal gland in ovine photoperiodism: regulation of seasonal breeding and negative feedback effects of estradiol upon luteinizing hormone secretion. Endocrinology 1983; 113:329-336.
45. MALPAUX B, MIGAUD M, TRICOIRE H, CHEMINEAU P. Biology of mammalian photoperiodism and the critical role of the pineal gland and melatonin. J Biol Rhythms 2001; 16:336-347.
46. BITTMAN EL, BLAUSTEIN JD. Effects of day length on sheep neuroendocrine estrogen and progestin receptors. Am J Physiol 1990; 259:R135-R142.
47. BLACHE D, BATAILLER M, FABRE-NYS C. Oestrogen receptors in the preoptic hypothalamic continuum: immunohistochemical study of the distribution and cell density during the oestrous cycle in ovariectomized ewe. J Neuroendocrinol 1994; 6:329-339